Ernő Kis-Király

Ernő Kis-Király is a Hungarian ultramarathon runner born on 26 March 1958 in Komló, Hungary, where his athletic career began in the local miners' soccer club Komlói Bányász in 1968, before he moved into track and field as a promising middle and long distance runner and later became an ultramarathon runner. He is best known for three victories at the Vienna to Budapest Supermarathon, a five-day stage race that was the most prestigious road race in Central Europe in the 1990s. His other marks include a time under six and a half hours for 100 kilometres at De Nacht van Vlaanderen in 1989 and more than 150 kilometres in 12 hours in 1991. He won a European Cup in Hirtenberg, Austria in 1985, covered 150.838 kilometres in the 12-hour event at Szeged in 1987, and took the European title in the 12-hour event at Moreuil, France in 1991. In 1986 he was runner-up to Yiannis Kouros in the Spartathlon from Athens to Sparta, and he was inducted into the Hungarian Ultrarunners' Hall of Fame in 2016.